How can I keep from losing my custom slide times?

[mountain man]

October 25, 2006

Dear fellow PTE fans,

I’m still using PTE 4.48 and I have a longtime vexing problem with it. I’d appreciate any tips you might have. (And maybe the problem will be solved in 5.0.)

I always use a lot of custom settings for the length of time that various slides are displayed. I simply move each slide along the timeline so that each one is shown for the number of seconds I want. By the end of a timeline, I might have 200 or 300 slides, painstakingly organized with just the amount of display time I want for each one.

BUT . . . . if I dare to add new slides somewhere within the show (or delete some slides), all the slides from that point onward are renumbered -- and the display times stay with the NUMBERS rather than staying with the photos themselves as they should. Ouch! I end up going thru the numbing process of reassigning my desired display times to all the photos.

Any tips? Am I doing something wrong?

Many Thanks.

Don

[alrobin]

October 25, 2006

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BUT . . . . if I dare to add new slides somewhere within the show (or delete some slides), all the slides from that point onward are renumbered -- and the display times stay with the NUMBERS rather than staying with the photos themselves as they should. Ouch! I end up going thru the numbing process of reassigning my desired display times to all the photos.

Any tips? ..............

Don,

If you are usng version 4.48, check "Auto adding of new transition points ... " in the "Timeline / View" window, and then when you use the "Delete slide" button on the timeline to delete transition points, the slide involved will be deleted, both from the timeline, and also from the slide list. If you want to use it again, simply click on the "Insert slide" button (also on the timeline) and select the appropriate slide from the light-table view presented. Hope this helps.